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Brewer's: Nine Worthies
Joshua, David, and Judas & Maccabaeus;; Hector, Alexander, and Julius & Caesar;; Arthur, Charlemagne, and Godfrey of Bouillon. Nine worthies were they called, of different rites-…Brewer's: Rascal Counters
Pitiful or paltry s. d. Brutus calls money paltry compared with friendship, etc. When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friend Be ready, gods, with all…Brewer's: Richard of Cirencester
Sometimes called “The Monk of Westminster,” an early English chronicler. His chronicle On the Ancient State of Britain was first brought to light by Dr. Charles Julius Bertram, professor…Brewer's: Pyrrhic Dance
the most famous war-dance of antiquity, received its name from Pyrrichos, a Dorian. It was danced to the flute, and its time was very quick. Julius Caesar introduced it into Rome. The…Brewer's: Rubicon
To pass the Rubicon. To adopt some measure from which it is not possible to recede. Thus, when the Austrains, in 1859, passed the Ticino, the act was a declaration of war against Sardinia…Brewer's: Triads
Three subjects more or less connected formed into one continuous poem or subject: thus the Creation, Redemption, and Resurrection would form a triad. The conquest of England by the Romans…Brewer's: Scriptores Tres
[the three writers ]. Meaning Richard of Cirencester, Gildas Badonicus, and Nennius of Bangor. Julius Bertram, professor of English at Copenhagen, professed to have discovered the first of…Brewer's: Thunderbolts
Jupiter was depicted by the ancients as a man seated on a throne, holding a sceptre in his left hand and thunderbolts in his right. Modern science has proved there are no such things as…Brewer's: Erebus
Darkness. The gloomy cavern underground through which the Shades had to walk in their passage to Hades. “A valley of the shadow of death.” Not Erebus itself were dim enough To hide thee…Brewer's: Falling Sickness
Epilepsy, in which the patient falls suddenly to the ground. “Brutus.—He[i.e. Cæsar] hath the falling-sickness.” Cassius. “No, Cæsar hath it not: but you, and I, And honest Casca, we…Trending
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